Aging & brain injuries are connected

It's always estimated that banging our heads can lead to the increased chances of things like dementia taking hold, and for most of us that can be quite a terrifying thought. Aging and brain injuries are very much connected in various ways, as a new study shows; it's believed that continuous brain injuries can accelerate the aging process in our bodies and make ourselves feel and look older than we actually are.
Whether it's through contact sports or your form of employment - the military, for example - a long-term period of hits and damage will eventually create a build-up of beta-amyloid within the brain.
This, in turn, leads to a variety of negative conditions and can also increase the chances of dementia starting. Aging should be something that we go through naturally, but it appears that a few knocks to the head will really change the situation and make things go even faster.
Out of all sports people and athletes, boxers are estimated to suffer from this the most as well as military veterans who have suffered extensive head injuries at one stage - or multiple stages - throughout their career.
It's important to understand, though, that aging won't get faster; your days won't suddenly count for two, for example. Instead, it speeds up the process as the age dependent factor within beta-amyloids comes into play. Whilst it's hard to give any exact characterizations it's now been noted quite freely that damage to the head can cause serious problems in the growth of amyloid B peptide levels.
Therefore, it's vital that anyone involved in fighting or any kind of physical involvement is extremely careful about how their brain is treated. Those with beta-amyloid deposits suffered from a greater level of mental drain as they got older, and therefore it's vital to be able to avoid a buildup of this problem as it can leave you with life-changing conditions in the future.
However, this breakthrough offers a new chance for a development of the correlation between both aging and the beta-amyloid deposits that can build up through head trauma. This will be vital to ensuring there is a way to combat these problems and hopefully offer some kind of long-term solution against things like Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
There is a lot more to be learned and gained from studies like this, but it's vital to actually have a starting place that makes a strong reference point.